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Comments

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Iam just searching for the exact location of Luz. I know the bible says that Jacob called the that place Bethel but the name of it was called Luz at first. Has anyone pinpointed the exact location of Bethel or Luz?

                     curious
                     Bro. Barry D.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.52.12.199 (talk • contribs) 03:25, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bones

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I removed two paragraphs about Bones from this article about Biblical places. They should probably be reproduced somewhere, but I don't know where:

There is a small bone in the body at the base of the spinal column called the Luz bone (some identify this bone as the coccyx) from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection. Muslims and Jews share the belief that this bone does not decay. Muslim books refer to this bone as "^Ajbu al-Thanab" --(عَجْبُ الذَّنَب). In Judaism, Rabbi Joshua Ben Hananiah replied to Hadrian, as to how man revived in the world to come, "From Luz, in the back-bone."

One of the two small bones at the base of the right great toe (the tibial sesmoid) is also named Luz. It was felt by the Greeks to be the seat of the soul.

-- JHunterJ 12:06, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, the location of the bone is in the neck area. The Arabs beliefs are wrong on this. This is better information: http://www.sichosinenglish.org/books/to-live-and-live-again/14.htm#n381

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.189.126.88 (talk • contribs) 05:25, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Page split

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I moved the information about the bone to Luz (bone), and cut out the Aramaic dictionary definition. This page is about the Biblical places, other uses of the word should have their own articles if needed, and linked from Luz (disambiguation). Thanks, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 15:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Founded by?

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How can a man both come from Luz and be the founder of Luz? He has to be one or the other! Tumacama (talk) 02:05, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 4 September 2023

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved to Luz (biblical place). Clear consensus that the biblical city is not the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for "Luz". A few different disambiguators were proposed; the original proposal of "(Bible)" was criticized as not indicating that the article subject is a place, and "(city)" was identified as insufficiently WP:PRECISE, so the weight of argument appears to favor "(biblical place)". (closed by non-admin page mover) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 13:36, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Luz → Luz (Bible)
Luz (disambiguation) → Luz

– No primary topic, see some pageviews Hameltion (talk | contribs) 22:56, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom; this place probably isn't even in the top 5 or 10 primary topics with this name. 3 kids in a trenchcoat (talk) 03:53, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Since this is an article about a place (or two) and not a bible, a different disambiguator might be better. This article is in Category:Torah cities, which does not show a lot of consistency in naming, but we have examples like Harran (biblical place) and Anem (ancient city). Dekimasuよ! 14:02, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm usually in favour of more concision, so I think just (city) might be alright given there are no other cities with the same name. Alpha3031 (t • c) 12:55, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Luz, Minas Gerais is a city. I would prefer Luz (biblical place) or similar, but the proposed title is okay. SilverLocust 💬 20:14, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support this may be the most common use especially by PT#2 over the 2020 film but there probably isn't a primary topic. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:47, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This is another place where to get to people named this way, one has to click a hatnote and then find the anthroponymy entry in the list, yet a Google Books search for the term mostly produces people. (Support) --Joy (talk) 14:32, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.